How do you organize your cast recordings?
How do you organize your cast recordings?
#0How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:24pm
Do you put theatre related recordings in with the Cast Recordings, or do you put them at end? For example, would you put Barbara Cook's Broadway (which was technically a show) in with the Cast Recordings? What about Audra's albums, Unsung Sondheim, etc?
Updated On: 7/30/05 at 03:24 PM
Parks
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#1re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:25pmI'd put cast recordings first-and then theater related recordings after. (In my CD case). I'm a organized freak with my CD case...
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#2re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:27pmThat's what I'm doing. What about events like Barbara Cook's Broadway or Elaine Stritch At Liberty? Shows or theatre related?
#3re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:29pmParks, want to maybe come over and help me organize my collection? It's not organized at all. And you're very cute. :)
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jczelyph
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#4re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:31pm
I used to organise them by composer in few huge CD wallets (I move around too much to have them all in their cases) but as my collection expanded, it grew too difficult to keep shifting CD's around so now they are organised in a bizarro system based on psychic divination that only I have the power to understand. I know exactly where every one is but have no logical idea how I possess this sixth sense. It's the voodoo....
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Updated On: 7/30/05 at 03:31 PM
#5re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 3:32pmI just organized mine, except for what to do with the misc stuff. I feel more centered though. Less chaos.
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#6re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 4:49pm
I have my signed LSOH revival cd on top(since it's a different case than the others) and then from there, they are all alphabetized starting with All Shook Up and going down to Urinetown, and then on the bottom, in alphabetical order are Assassins and The Frogs(again different cases from the others).
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#7re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 4:55pmI have a case for my CDs, with the first three pages (4 CDs each) my Sondheim section, ordered by time they were written. After that, I have the multi CD recordings with each other (i.e., Rent, Les Miz, Ragtime, etc.), but not in chronologically.
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#8re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 5:00pmI first put cast recordings in first (grouping them by composers) and then theatre related recordings afterward.
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#9re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 5:02pmI put the new shows on top, then the rest in order of my favourites. My Les Misérables CRs have a special place though, because they are double discs and don't fit in my tower of CRs. Normal CDs come last. They have a crappy little holder.
#10re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 5:44pm
alphabetically..on my ipod 
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jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#11re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 6:02pmYeah, all of my CD's are ripped to iTunes and on my iPod and that is where I listen to them. I rarely touch the CD's except to rip them and then put them away.
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#12re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 9:03pmI keep all my cast albums in an antique-looking music chest. I organize them in neat little sections: The Sondheim corner, the Adam Guettel corner(it's only 3 cds but he deserves his own space next to Steven so they can chat), the Off-Broadway corner, the theatre-related section, and the rest are Broadway cast recordings which are in order of the year they were recorded.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#13re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 9:51pmOrganize? I have most of my cast recordings in an old Build-A-Bear box.
Bwaydreams01
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/04
#14re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:28pmI just have them placed in ABC order... it gets so annoying when I have to reorganize them to put in a new cast recording... but it's worth it though....
#15re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:36pm
It's weird this was brought up today, because I was at the library today and they had an Audra McDonald CD in the "Musicals" section and I thought it was strange that they had it there.
I keep mine in alphabetical order on my iTunes/iPod, the CDs are just in stacks on the shelf.
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#16re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:45pm
.... on the floor of my car... They just spilled. 
They used to be alphabetized.
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#17re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:46pm
Ummm all my CD's (not just broadway) are in alphabetical order.... then when it comes to shows I have multiple recordings of, they go in order of appearance so to speak.
Example:
Chicago 1975
Chicago revival 1996
Chicago London 1998
Chicago Movie 2002
(yeah yeah, it IS sad I own all of those.... hush you all lol)
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#18re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 10:54pmI don't organize them. For some reason I have a better time finding things when they're not in any order.
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YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#19re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:02pmJust in alphabetical order. Everything theatre related is together (including movie soundtracks like Chicago).
courtneyanne
Stand-by Joined: 2/11/05
#20re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/31/05 at 2:20amI don't organize mine either. All my music is in random order.
phantom_tenor
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
#21re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/31/05 at 5:45ambah, who needs organisation? I somehow know where all my CDs og any kind are even though they are randomly scattered around my bedroom.
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#22re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/31/05 at 7:32amTemporal order, by Year and then within that in the order of the most successful before the less successful.
Glindafan
Stand-by Joined: 10/9/04
#23re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/31/05 at 7:40amI organize mine by case color using the roy g. biv system - like an audio rainbow. It takes me much longer to find anything, but it looks GREAT! The voices suggested this approach.
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FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#24re: How do you organize your cast recordings?
Posted: 7/31/05 at 7:52amLOL, Glindafan, that is the most original way of organizing I've heard for ages...
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